Reviews

The Balmoral Añejo XO is being officially released this weekend at IPCPR in New Orleans, although I was able to find it at two retailers the week before the show. This cigar is packed in 20 count boxes and comes in three sizes. Balmoral is a brand under the Royal Agio Cigars umbrella based out of the Netherlands. Their other brands include Mehari’s, Panter, and De Huifkar. The Balmoral line is distributed in the U.S. by Drew Estates and is only available at their Diplomat retailers.

Skip Martin knows a thing or two about blending a cigar. In his workshop Fabrica de Tabacos NicaSueño he has crafted the companies strongest cigar to date. the ligero holds two to three times the normal amount for a typical ligero. This is where the massive strength of this cigar comes from.

After a hugely popular release in 2014, Crowned Heads is back with this years edition of Las Calaveras. They have introduced a new size to the line this year as well, a corona gorda (5 5/8 x 46). They also tweaked the band design a little bit as well while still maintaining the overall theme of the line of cigars.

A fresh new cigar from Warped for the cool spring season. This time Kyle Gellis brings us a Nicaraguan blended puro cigar with a corojo wrapper. The production is being handled at TABSA, the Casa Fernández factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. This is the second cigar done in this factory, the first being the Flor Del Valle.

This is the third and final release of Room 101’s Master Collection, and was released in February of 2015. Like the previous two Master Collection blends there are 5 vitolas with a total of just over 100,000 cigars being produced. This review will focus on the Sucio vitola.